ASMONIA description

Recent cyberwar incidents and the iPhone worm demonstrate the need for protection and collaborative early warning concepts
tailored to the telecommunication sector. Additionally, threats to mobile networks will increase with the growing use of
untrusted and malicious applications on modern mobile devices. Simultaneously, the utilization of mobile networks becomes
more multifaceted (e.g., public/private use), and the technical heterogeneity (3G, 4G, non-3G and future generations) and
complexity (roaming, interworking) of the overall system grows due to its interconnectedness. This trend will likely
continue well into the future, due to the growing number of heterogeneous (e.g., wireless) interfaces on end devices and
the increasing use of applications whose integrity cannot be guaranteed a priori.

The overall goal of ASMONIA is the development of a holistic security concept for mobile network infrastructures that
satisfies the diverse requirements of modern networks. Integrity protection and attack detection solutions that exploit
characteristics of resilient and flexible systems like cloud computing will therefore be integrated. The additional
integration of collaborative information exchange mechanisms will improve the security level of modern communication
networks. ASMONIA is sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) within the IT Security
Research work program.

The mains tasks of the ASMONIA project are:

Risk analysis of mobile networks and end devices

Defining holistic and collaborative protection concepts

Protecting the integrity of network devices

Incorporation of resilient and flexible systems as essential protection components